AS 21.39.155: Assigned risk pool.

(a) The director may require insurers, except a reciprocal insurer formed under AS 21.75, as a condition of writing a line of insurance dealing with medical malpractice or workers' compensation, to participate in an assigned risk pool if the director finds that mandatory carrier participation is in the public interest.

(b) The assigned risk pool and the procedures to be followed in administering the pool shall be established by regulation.

(c) An insurer may impose a surcharge not to exceed 25 percent of the premium for assigned risk pool insurance, except that a surcharge may not be applied to the first $6,000 in premium in any policy year.